minesweeping

1. 1.

   the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines

   Broadermine disposal

Other forms of minesweeping

plural

minesweepings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about minesweeping

What does minesweeping mean?

minesweeping means "the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines".

How many syllables are in minesweeping?

minesweeping has 4 syllables and divides as mi-ne-swee-ping under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.